#starting point

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

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There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point. ↗

— Estelle Morris

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Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model. ↗

— John Hull

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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

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The search for religion is the starting point of thought. ↗

— Xu Zhimo

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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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